Clipping:Negotiations to bring Lucas into the NL
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| Date | Sunday, January 11, 1885 |
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| Text | [reporting on the NL special meeting] Presdident Young said that there was no disposition on the part of the League to violate any part of the National agreement. The admission of the St. Louis Union Club to the League all hinges on Mr. Von der Ahe's consent. If he does not give it there is some probability that the deal will be off, although there are one or two members who are ready to accept the Union Club in any event. Von der Ahe, however, has the matter entirely in his own hand, as there are not enough of these members to accomplish any thing. It now remains to be seen whether he wants opposition in St. Louis next season or not. … The excitement among the clubs ran very high this morning, when the Presidents of every club in the National League received a telegram from Mr. Von der Ahe to the effect that he protested against an opposition club in St. Louis. For several hours afterward the telegraph wires were kept hot carrying messages asking him to reconsider his decision. Messrs. Barnie, Simmons, Day and Sharzig telegraphed several times asking him to do it, and thus save a rupture in the national agreement. They thought that the League was bound to have a club in St. Louis to fill the vacancy, and that if Mr. Von der Ahe did not consent one would be established anyhow, in defiance of the tripartite fraud, and thus precipitate a fight between the League and American Associations. Von der Ahe, however, steadily refused to do the martyr for the benefit of the other members, and the messenger boys kept up the dance between the hotel and the telegraph office nearly all afternoon. Messages were also sent to President McKnight, Byrne and other members of the American Association, asking them to use their influence to bring Von der Ahe around to a realizing sense of his duty, but up to eight o'clock in the evening no reply has come. |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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